Friday, October 28, 2016

Instructions for Easy Stenciled Cupcakes for Halloween

Decorate Halloween Cupcakes with Stencils Reviewed

Stenciling cupcakes is a fun way to decorate cupcakes. Using stencils is a pretty easy way to decorate beautiful Halloween cupcakes that are certain to be a frightening fantastic addition to your party table.By simply using stencils, confectioners sugar or sanding sugar, you too will be able to create tasty treats that double as great Halloween decorations.If you can't find the cupcake stencil you want, why not use a small cookie cutter?Let me show you exactly what I am talking about and what your guests will be talking about at your Halloween party when you make these creepy cupcakes!

Choose the Right Cupcake Recipe

For convenience, I used boxed cake mixes to make my cupcakes. I baked 12 large Triple Chocolate Fudge with a Betty Crocker Super Moist cake mix and 12 large Lemon Supreme cupcakes with Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe cake mix.

I selected these flavors because I knew I would not be icing all of them and I wanted cupcakes that would taste good without icing.

Delicious filled cupcakes would be ideal for these stenciled cupcakes for Halloween since they will not be frosted.

Supplies You Will Need to Get Started Stenciling

Decorators note: An essential tool for decorating with Confectioner's sugar is a cup with a mesh top.

Recommended Powdered Sugar Shaker

With Stainless Steel Mesh Dome Lid

This cup will allow you to literally sprinkle confectioners sugar onto
your cupcake once the stencil is in place. It will cut down on the mess
often associated with decorating with confectioner's sugar.

Directions for Stenciling Cupcakes

Easy Stenciled Cupcakes for Halloween

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Use A Cookie Cutter to Stencil

If you don't have stencils on hand, you could also use a small cookie cutter. Owls and ghosts were not included in my stencil pack, but I wanted cupcakes decorated with them. Since I love owls and ghosts at Halloween, I used my cookie cutters. It is the same process, you simply have to make sure you have a good hold on the cookie cutter and have it firmly pressed against the cupcake top so the powdered sugar doesn't escape the sides.

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Stenciling Iced Cupcakes

Stenciling cupcakes that have icing is a little messier and a bit more tricky, but can certainly be done!

To stencil an image on icing or frosting, you would want to use sanding sugar instead of powdered sugar. The sanding sugar does have an added "sparkle" benefit.

You do need to be extremely careful when you lift the stencil or cookie cutter off the icing to keep from dropping excess sugar outside of the image lines. The icing tends to try to hold on to your stencil. I recommend lifting it straight up and off the cupcake without tilting the stencil.

Directions for Stenciling Cupcakes with Sanding Sugar

Using Cupcake Stencils - Place the stencil or cookie cutter on the frosted cupcake

Sprinkle Sanding Sugar on the Cupcake, then Slowly

Gently Lift the Stencil Straight Up & Off of Cupcake

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Cupcakes for Halloween Stenciled with Sanding Sugar

These Cupcakes were Decorated with Lemon Frosting and Brown Sanding Sugar

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Using Cookie Cutters & Stencils to Decorate Cupcakes

Black Cat Cupcake
Lemon Cupcake & Black Sanding Sugar

When you decorate your Halloween cupcakes with stencils or cookie cutters, your variety is limited only by your cookie cutters, stencils and supplies. I have dozens of cookie cutters and several packs of Halloween stencils. I enjoy playing around with them and seeing what unique cupcakes I can create. Now, everybody knows you can't celebrate Halloween without the black cat. Isn't he spectacular on his golden moon cupcake!

The Stencils

The stencils used in this article are an older pack of Martha Stewart Halloween stencils - M230600 (UPC #015586743364). The pack includes the bat, 2 jack o' lantern faces, the witch, the spider, the web, the skull & crossbones and the raven. (Neither the raven nor the web are shown on the front of the package.) The only place I could find them at the time of writing this article was on eBay.

Since eBay inventory changes constantly, I recommend checking here again soon if you don't see exactly what you want right now.

7 comments:

What a terrific way to decorate cupcakes for Halloween treats and parties. I never would have thought of using stencils on food. They all look so cute! And it's interesting to see that cookie cutters can be used to decorate with too.

How fun! I especially like the black cat against the lemon-yellow moon, but I picture a nice variety of Halloween designs on different colors and flavors of cupcakes. Sounds delicious as well as adorable.

What a clever idea for decorating. It would work for any holiday. At first I couldn't figure our how you could use a a cookie cutter because most of mine are different -- solid with handles like biscuit cutters. When I saw yours, I remembered that I also do have the other kind. It's been over 20 years since I used them. It was one of those things I did with or for kids.

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